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British Academy Television Award | |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Presented by | British Academy of Film and Television Arts |
First awarded | 1954 |
Currently held by | Lockerbie (2024) |
Website | www |
The British Academy Television Award for Best Factual Series or Strand is one of the major categories of the British Academy Television Awards (BAFTAs), the primary awards ceremony of the British television industry. The category is described on the official BAFTA website as "more than one factual programme linked through a unified approach, narrative or the thematic development of a subject matter."[1]
Throughout the history of the awards there have been several categories with different names for factual television programming.
- From 1958 to 1969 was presented as an individual award named Best Factual while also from 1964 to 1966 other category was presented as Best Factual Personality.
- In 1971 and 1972 was awarded as Best Factual Production and then from 1973 to 1977 as Best Factual Programme.
- Finally since 1973 it has been awarded under the name of Best Factual Series or Best Factual Series or Strand.
Winners and nominees
1950s
Best Factual'
Year | Recipient(s) | Title |
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1958 | Donald Baverstock and the production team | Tonight |
1958 | Production team |
1960s
Best Factual
Year | Recipient(s) | Title |
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1960 | Denis Mitchell | |
1961 | Michael Redington | |
1962 | Tim Hewat | |
1963 | Richard Cawston | |
1964 | Peter Morley, Cyril Bennett | |
1965 | Production team | World in Action |
1966 | Jeremy Isaacs and the production team | This Week |
Cyril Bennett | Division This Week Three After Six Paradise Street | |
Paul Fox | General Election Coverage | |
Tim Slessor | So You Think You Can Drive Jungle Green Glorious Sail | |
Sports Unit | Presentation of Olympic Material | |
1967 | Production team | 24 Hours |
1968 | Desmond Wilcox, Bill Morton | |
1969 | Philip Whitehead and the production team | This Week |
Best Factual Personality
Year | Recipient(s) |
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1964 | Bernard Braden |
1965 | Alan Whicker |
1966 | Malcolm Muggeridge |
1970s
Best Factual Production
Year | Title | Recipient(s) |
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1971 | The Tribe That Hides from Man | Adrian Cowell |
Horizon | Peter Goodchild and the production team | |
Man Alive | Desmond Wilcox, Bill Morton and the production team | |
Man Alive: Gale is Dead | Jenny Barraclough | |
Wildlife Safari in Ethiopia | Jeffery Boswall | |
World in Action | Production team | |
1972 | Man Alive: Women in Prison | Jenny Barraclough |
World in Action | Jeremy Wallington and the production team | |
Born To Be Small | Tony Snowdon, Derek Hart | |
Hollywood - Dowager in Hot Pants | Jack Gold | |
Horizon | Peter Goodchild | |
Man Alive | Desmond Wilcox, Bill Morton and the production team | |
Surrender to Everest | Antony Thomas, Ned Kelly |
Best Factual Programme
Year | Title | Recipient(s) |
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1973 | Horizon: "The Making of a Natural History Film" | Mick Rhodes |
The Block | Paul Watson | |
The Commanders: Rommel | Harry Hastings | |
1974 | Last Night, Another Soldier… | Eric Davidson |
Horizon: "What Time Is Your Body?" | Dominic Flessati | |
Metroland | Edward Mirzoeff | |
The Year of the Torturer | Stephen Clark, Leslie Woodhead | |
1975 | Beauty, Bonny, Daisy, Violet, Grace and Geoffrey Morton | Frank Cvitanovich |
The Bomb Disposal Men | Jenny Barraclough | |
The Opium Warlords | Adrian Cowell | |
The World at War: "Genocide" | Michael Darlow | |
1976 | Johnny Go Home | John Willis |
Auschwitz, The Final Solution | Michael Darlow | |
Everest The Hard Way | Ned Kelly, Christopher Ralling | |
This Week: "Dying for a Fag" | David Elstein | |
1977 | Sailor: "The Rescue" | John Purdie |
The Battle of the Somme | Malcolm Brown | |
Spirit Of The Place - Laurence Durrell's Greece | Peter Adam | |
The World About Us: "Lions of the Serengeti" | Hugo van Lawick | |
The World About Us: "Night of the Fox" | Peter Bale |
Best Factual Series
1980s
Best Factual Series
Year | Title | Recipient(s) |
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1980 | Circuit 11 Miami | Mark Anderson |
Life on Earth | John Sparks, Richard Brock | |
The Magic of Dance | Patricia Foy | |
The World About Us | Anthony Isaacs, Michael Andrews | |
1981 | Strangeways | Rex Bloomstein |
Great Railway Journeys of the World | Roger Laughton | |
Hollywood | Kevin Brownlow, David Gill | |
Ireland: A Television History: "Episodes 1-5" | Jeremy Isaacs | |
Public School | Richard Denton | |
1982 | Ireland: A Television History: "Episodes 5-13" | Jeremy Isaacs |
Fighter Pilot | Colin Strong | |
Forty Minutes | Roger Mills | |
Wildlife on One | Peter Bale | |
The World About Us | Peter Jones, Anthony Isaacs | |
1983 | Police | Roger Graef, Charles Stewart |
The Flight of the Condor | Michael Andrews | |
Forty Minutes | Roger Mills | |
Horizon | Graham Massey | |
1984 | Forty Minutes | Roger Mills |
Unknown Chaplin | David Gill, Kevin Brownlow | |
Wildlife on One | Peter Bale | |
The World About Us | Anthony Isaacs, Peter Jones | |
1985 | River Journeys | Roger Laughton, David Wallace |
Crime Inc | John Edwards, Martin Short | |
Forty Minutes | Roger Mills | |
The Heart of the Dragon | Peter Montagnon | |
1986 | Forty Minutes | Edward Mirzoeff, Roger Mills |
Comrades | Richard Denton | |
Kingdom of the Ice Bear | Hugh Miles, Mike Salisbury | |
Whicker's World: Living with Uncle Sam | Jonathan Stedall | |
1987 | World in Action | Ray Fitzwalter |
British Cinema: Personal View | David Gill, Kevin Brownlow | |
Crimewatch | Sam Organ, Peter Chafer | |
First Tuesday | John Willis | |
Forty Minutes | Edward Mirzoeff | |
Horizon | Robin Brightwell | |
The South Bank Show | Melvyn Bragg | |
1988 | The Duty Men | Paul Hamann |
Arena | Nigel Finch, Anthony Wall | |
The RKO Story: Tales from Hollywood | Charles Chabot, Rosemary Wilton | |
Forty Minutes | Edward Mirzoeff | |
1989 | Arena | Anthony Wall, Nigel Finch |
Forty Minutes | Edward Mirzoeff | |
The South Bank Show | Melvyn Bragg | |
Supersense | John Downer |
1990s
Best Factual Series